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Navigating America's Other...
Wendy Kopp The founder and CEO of Teach for America is a past TIME 100 honoree Teach for America alum Tom Torkelson is proving that children from low-income communities can achieve. His Idea Academy and College Preparatory was ranked the 19th best high school and sixth best charter school in the country. All 100% of Tom's high school graduates have gone to college...
...could miss the symbolism. The last living brother of the President who created the Peace Corps, alongside the President who was inspired by J.F.K. and created AmeriCorps (which, under the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, will triple in size) and the new President who has been talking about national service since he was a candidate in the snows of Iowa...
...Indeed, the bill had overwhelming bipartisan support. But at a time of economic distress and dislocation, service has come to seem like a silver bullet that can help address some of our most intractable problems. Applications for AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps and Teach for America are pouring in--there are many more applicants than spots. Is that due to the economy? Perhaps. The bill authorizes $5.7 billion for national service over the next five years, which can jump-start a range of programs to help schools, health care and the environment. But as everyone claps one another on the back...
...have so many romantic partners? Thanks to multiple marriages and divorces, cohabitation, stepfamilies and various other couple combinations, America experiences "more turbulence in our family lives, more changes of partners and parents, than any other nation." So says Johns Hopkins University professor of public policy Cherlin, whose new study of the U.S. marriage landscape blames two contradictory yet dominant cultural ideals for our matrimonial meanderings. On one side is marriage itself, which holds a sacred place in American life. On the other is a "kind of individualism that emphasizes self-expression and personal growth." It's easy to see where...